Re: Hardware Neural Network

Daniele wrote:

Hi all,

I'm a university student, and I'm realizing a research on artificial
neural networks. The aim of my research is the feasibility of putting
an artificial neural network on a microcontroller or a DSP. Because of
the sigmoid function, I think that would be necessary a 32-bit
microcontroller (or DSP) for floating point operations. I was
searching online but I only had found exhaustive informations on
software realization of ANN's, but it's not what I was searching for.
Does someone have any hint or any previous experience on the hardware
realization of an ANN?
I think the better solution is the DSP, due to its power on floating
points operation, is it right?

Here are some details of the network:

5 or 6 inputs
about 10 neurons in the hidden layer
2 outputs

Thanks in advance,

Daniele.

Peter Meijer has an interesting page.
<http://www.seeingwithsound.com/thesis.htm>

Also some other information.
<http://www.dacs.dtic.mil/techs/neural/neural_ToC.html>
<http://lsmwww.epfl.ch/Education/reports/joye_report_2005.pdf>
<http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=968880.969246>
<http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/tgclarkson/pram-data.pdf>
<http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/~rwells/techdocs/Conference Papers/Biomimic
Neuron IECON03.pdf> [re-construct this one if necessary]

There is a data *** in amongst that lot.

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